New Moon In Gemini Duels With Integrating Duality. Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

On May 21^st, transiting Mercury retrograde met up with our STAR at 00* Gemini.  Mercury rules Gemini, so this HEATED UP THE PAIR, and along with all the huge M and X class solar flares have heated up the energy creating an electrical charge in the field that is palpable and can be both INFORMATIONALLY REVEALING, as well as confounding and disturbing.  SHOCKING.

Jupiter had left the Piscean waters and has newly ingressed for his first romp through Aries at 1*.

That taps into the HUGE ENERGY SHIFT OF THE MAY 16^TH BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE AT 25*17’ SCORPIO.

Remember what was happening around this time, because it is all going to rear its head in the fall eclipses.

Now we have the new moon on May 30^th at 7:30 AM EDT, when the sun and moon meet up at 09*3’ Gemini the twins.  DUALITY INTEGRATING THE PAIRS OF OPPOSITES.  INFORMATION.
The pair make a slightly wide sextile to the recent Mars/Jupiter conjunction, though Mars has moved a degree closer.  (This can give us some buoyancy, laughter and the energy to enjoy some get togethers.  Watch for the tempers...

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Mercury who is still retrograde, has been left behind at 29* TAUrus, where he will travel back to 26* until June 3^rd, when he stations direct.

To this little cocktail in the waters above, is Mars, ruler of Aries, entering his own domain, on May 24^th and he will join Jupiter on Sunday, expanding all that ‘HOT/MARTIALLING ENERGY.

On Sunday, the day before the new moon Monday, Jupiter and Mars will meet up at 3*Aries IGNITING A CYCLE of INCREASING heat on the planet, and this can also trigger some untapped anger and resentment, that may have been building up, into EXPLOSIVE TERRITORY.

This can also trigger more volcanic action, such as the HUGE EXPLOSION ON MT ETNA last week.

Of course, it isn’t as though there are already events that are heating up on the planet, but this can ‘MARTIAL THE ENERGY’ into such an expanse, DIVISIONS MAY HAVE PEOPLE LITERALLY CUTTING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR LIVES.  Mostly due to an already overwrought world, people in fear, not knowing who or what to believe anymore, as things are both REVEALED, DISCLOSED AND FURTHER OBFUSCATED IN THE RIVER OF LIES BEING SPUN.

Mercury will keep revealing, as he pulls back the curtain with the under toe created, swirling counterclockwise in the heavenly seas, pay attention to ‘Freudian slips’ and even some disclosures released completely on PURPOSE.  What has been done in the past, using the energy of Mars and Pluto (Also retrograde at 28*23’ Capricorn (hierarchy/government/pyramid systems) may EXPOSE THE LIES FAR TOO UNCOMFORTABLE FOR MOST HEARTS/MINDS.   A RECKONING.

The DUALITY of GEMINI THE TWINS, AN AIR SIGN, has recently been fed by that retrograde Mercury/Hermes, who by the time of the new moon will have regressed back to 26* TAUrus, and with Venus newly Ingressed into Taurus, where she is ruler and comfy cozy now at 2*11’ of the bull, has come to show some love, love of her earthy, sensual nature, LOVE FOR THE GODDESS.  She also made that CARDINAL SQUARE BACK TO PLUTO IN CAPRICORN, bringing up uncomfortable conversations about how and where to spend money or invest, and peeling back the layers of what we TRULY VALUE, and how to spend our days, earning a living.

What is the tradeoff? 

The stock market is bouncing around, taking deep dives and trying to come back up for air.
 
So far, none of this bodes well for the fall Fixed Cross Eclipses in Scorpio/Taurus.  Just when those fixed cross signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius think they have come to an agreement of sorts, tucked their sheets in and can now move forward…sorry…that is not how it is going to go down.  You still have two more eclipses next year too…but the Fall eclipses can literally ECLIPSE OUT OF YOUR LIFE, THE THINGS YOU MAY HAVE TRIED SO DESPERATELY TO KEEP TOGETHER, HOT GLUE GUN AND ALL, but some things, are just going to change, the past is creeping closer and the future is becoming a vacuum, ready to EXTRACT YOU, from the current circumstances, you cannot help but cling to, the more you cling, the HARDER THIS WILL BE.

But, lets get back to the good news, shall we?

Venus, GODDESS OF LOVE, LOVER OF MONEY/LUXURY, can bring some new light into old ways, it can BREATHE LIFE into what may seem only a corpse, whether that is in relationships, how we love, what we love and who and what LOVES US?  These are big questions, and they won’t go away until YOU VISIT YOUR DEEPEST SELF.

Out of the Darkness, comes the light.  In the dark, CREATION IS DREAMING A NEW WORLD, NEW LIFE AND NEW LOVE.

Think about ‘what is done under the covers of darkness’, we can make a baby and we can give birth to new ideas, in some cases, what is done in darkness is sinister and malevolent.  As if we haven’t had enough of all that already. 

Uranus at 16*13’ TAUrus, is beginning to kiss the North Node at 22*32’ TAUrus, begging us to FINALLY SHOW UP IN ALL OUR RAIMANT AND LIVE OUR SOUL’S PURPOSE.  People can scratch that itch that has been irritating them for so long, they may just MAKE A LEAP OF FAITH AGAINST ALL ODDS.

Not the best plan going, but what is a plan anymore?  With all the sudden changes and fluctuations, in a darkly lit future that is losing hope for so many, it will give people a chutzpah or hubris, to just say, ‘fuck it all’…for many, they may feel as if they have been living/working in a prison, confining the spirit in ways that are BREAKING THEM PAST THE PAIN BARRIER THEY CAN WITHSTAND ANYMORE.

Again, we will see new ideas and inventions emerge, just as hope feels all but lost, a ray of light descends down the Celestial Ladder.  Interestingly, as the universe works so wonderfully mysteriously, a friend of mine recently shared this old bookmark he found, Franco Montevecchi, I thank you, always giving me the ‘signs’ I am seeking.
“Hail, Celestial Ladder, by whom God came down!”

Hail, you are the heavenly ladder by which God came down.

Last night, my guides kept saying: Harvest/Rapture over and over to me.

It was similar, when I was told we were living in the time of REVEALATIONS, and that is how it was told to me, as I walked on the top of a sacred mountain that had Indigenous, native burial grounds.  That is when I realized what revelations meant, and then looked up the word, Apocalypse, and found that it meant, ‘thinning of the veil’ and/or, a revealing.  To   help with a chronology, that was back around 2009. 
I have written a lot about all of that, including my ‘excitement’ at first, that the mysteries were being opened unto me.  Of course, that turned into the reality of what it would mean for people to have to wrestle with the truths they thought they knew, the hierarchy on planet earth they trusted, being REVEALED and how much dismay and torment that could cause people to have to go through as they ‘unwind’ the layers, as I had while living in the barn, and the psychological shock waves of horror as the world turned upside down and REVEALED ITSELF.

We can see people ‘clinging’ to the past truth they THOUGHT THEY KNEW.  How the quickening
current is unraveling them, (all of us to some degree) even as they try to hang on in this SHIFTING OF AGES.

IT IS ASTROLOGY.  The GRAND DESIGN OF THE ONE ARCHITECT, TO WHICH ALL LIFE FLOWS OUT OF THE DEEP, DARK, OCEAN OF LIFE.

This is causing deep, mental, cracks and fissures that will be harder for those who have accessed less of their ‘right brain’ (the side of the boat Jesus tells his disciples to fish from, to CAST THEIR NETS, which I investigated again, when I was describing to a dear friend, how in part, I practice the ART OF ASTROLOGY.  I CAST A NET INTO THE WATERY HEAVENS ABOVE AND PULL IN THE 153 FISH.  ALL THE STARS/PLANETS ARE LIVING BEINGS.  THEY ARE ANGELS/MESSENGERS.  ALL OF THEM. 

Speaking of old EL/Lord of the Rings/Saturn; he will station retrograde on June 4th at25*15' Aquarius, giving us all time to REVIEW plans and the FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURE of the new world/mind we are moving into.  What you thought you might be doing, may just not be the case, as he travels all the way back to 18*35' Aquarius before he stations direct October 22nd.

INCLUDING OUR OWN SPACESHIP, EARTH.

More and more, I am seeing ‘portals’ open, old standing stones that we created long ago, to align with the geomagnetism of the universal energies and EARTHEART.

People who crossed over, are working vehemently to get our attention and are appearing, just as we can see the ‘light orbs’, this recalled the meaning of the ‘Judgment Card’ in the Tarot.  No wonder the ‘DEAD SHALL RISE’.

So, with that in mind, let’s look at those two words again.

RAPTURE, is often cited as an event in the ‘END TIMES’ (THIS IS THE END OF THE AGE OF PISCES)

Noun

RAPT + -URE; (sense 3) probably after the use of rapere in the Vulgate (1 Thessalonians 4:17) to translate Greek harpázein "to take hold of, seize, snatch up, to carry off."

That alone has happened to me, a story I tell here:
https://arcoftheancients.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-living-word-of-god.html

The Koine Greek of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 uses the verb form ἁρπαγησόμεθα (harpagēsometha), which means "we shall be caught up" or "taken away". The dictionary form of this Greek verb is harpazō (ἁρπάζω).^[14] This use is also seen in such texts as Acts 8:39, 2 Corinthians 12:2–4, and Revelation 12:5.

The Latin Vulgate translates the Greek ἁρπαγησόμεθα as rapiemur^[15] meaning "we are caught up" or "we are taken away" from the Latin verb rapio meaning "to catch up" or "take away" ~From Wikipedia.

Have you been ‘caught up’?  Taken?  Gathered?  More and more people, aligned and filling their HEARTEARTH WITH LOVE, will experience ‘RAPTURES’.

The more you cling to the past, or unfortunately either the control version of the BOOK OF LIGHT AND HARDENED HEARTS TRYING TO KEEP CONTROLLING THE MASSES, the more this could be a very difficult process.

It is not EITHER/OR but one of nuanced interpretation and a sincere HEART, that seeks TRUTH AND JUSTICE.

harvest (n.)

Old English hærfest "autumn," as one of the four seasons, "period between August and November,"
from Proto-Germanic *harbitas (source also of Old Saxon hervist, Old Frisian and Dutch herfst, German Herbst "autumn," Old Norse haust "harvest"), from PIE root *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest."

In Old English and Middle English it was primarily a season name, with only an implied reference to the gathering of crops. The meaning "the time of gathering crops" is attested by mid-13c., and the sense was extended to the action itself and the product of the action (after c. 1300). After c. 1500 these were the main senses and the borrowed autumn and repurposed fall (n.) supplied the season name.

*kerp- 

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to gather, pluck, harvest."

It forms all or part of: carpe diem; carpel; carpet; carpo- (1) "fruit;" excerpt; harvest; scarce; scarcity.

Carpe Diem: SEIZE THE DAY

Virgo represents the Virgin who harvests the wheat, and Saturn/EL/Lord of the Rings carries his sickle he harvests with, as ‘grandfather time’, as is represented in images as a ‘GRANDFATHER CLOCK’.  To all things a season…

There is also so much misinformation out there, and far too many charlatans, who will divert you, take you off track from your own BLOOMING IN THE TRUTH.

THE SUN/LIGHT DRAWS UP NATURE, SEE THE PLANTS BEND TO HIS LIGHT?  REACH FOR THAT LIGHT?

SO TOO, MUST WE REACH FOR THE LIGHT OF TRUTH IN THESE TIMES WHICH ARE GOING TO QUICKEN.

This period can trigger ANGER, as people wrestle with maligned versions of the truth, and their souls yearning to reach for the LIGHT, which comes THROUGH THE HEART, IT IS THE ONLY WAY. 

THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE

If someone is teaching you to ‘hate a side’ or HATE PERIOD, there is no LIGHT OR LOVE WITHIN THIS DARK AGENDA.

You are being misled.

The Cardinal signs: Aries (who is really getting a JOLT NOW, BURST OF ENERGY STIMULATING YOU TO PLANT YOUR SOUL/GARDEN PREPARING FOR THE HARVEST), Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, all of you are getting a push, one way or another.  Pluto is RX in Capricorn again, until: October 8^th when he stations direct at: 26* Capricorn and begins that blast furnace over those degrees, AGAIN.  HE IS TRANSFORMING YOU (AND THE HIERARCHY’S ON THE PLANET) TO FIND YOUR OWN INTERNAL LEADER, DISCIPLINE, DISCIPLESHIP.  Now, we have Jupiter and Mars aligning in Aries to SUPERCHARGE THIS TRANSFORMATION.  You may finally find the inspiration, motivation to take up your CALLING, IT IS TIME.

Mutable Signs: PIsces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius, you have THE SUN AND THE MOON, INFUSING THE GREAT LIGHTS into your world, and separating DARK FROM LIGHT, to help grease the skids and warm those seeds in you, bursting them open during this period up into the full moon on June 14^th at 23* Sagittarius.
Tap into this POWER GOD IS GIVING US, preparing the way for YOUR HARVEST.  THOU KNOWEST NOT THE HOUR NOR THE DAY...BUT THE LIGHT IS SHINING BRIGHTLY ON YOU NOW.  PLANT TO REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

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REFERENCES:
Tyndale Bible - Wikipedia

harvest | Etymology, origin and meaning of harvest by etymonline

 

 

 

Integrating Duality Mirrored By Illusions In the Gemini New Moon

The new Moon in Gemini will occur on May 22, 2020 at 2* and 04’ of GEMINI THE TWINS at 1:38PM EDT, this is Enki and Enlil, Remus and Romulus, the twins of so many legends.  Gemini is also ruled by Mercury/Hermes and on May 15th, we celebrate the Feast of Mercuralia which was a Roman celebration that was also known as the ‘Festival of Mercury’.
I want to bring your attention to the numbers.  5/22/2020 2 degrees and 4 minutes.  2 x 5 = 10 and 10+ 10 = 20.  It is the 5th month X’s 22 days (which 2 X 2=4).  Again, we see all the CODING in this NEW MOON.  Gemini as pointed out is the TWINS.  Partnerships no matter which subtitle they fall under have their synchronicities and their oppositions, as well as their combined efforts to push forward and build.  (That is the 4/square) Lincoln’s famous address states: ‘4 score and 7 years ago’.)
Note: 4 score means 4x20, as score means a measurement of 20.
Mercury is the ‘merchant’ in the zodiac
Jesus says: "The Kingdom of the Father is like a man, a merchant, who has a burden and found a pearl. This merchant is a wise man: he sold the bundle and bought the pearl alone. You also seek his treasure which does not perish, which lasts, into which the moth does not enter to consume and the worm does not destroy."
This brings in the energy of the twins.  Double 2’s on the 22nd, piggybacking on all the other ‘coded’ numbers we are experiencing, last month the new moon fell on 4.22, so we have the sequence of 2’s and 4’s…help.  Partnerships, working with each other and of course the 444 is a well-known numerological sign for angels or spiritual help from the Highest Order.
In case you did not already know this, the business number that was ‘randomly’ given to me, has the last three digits: 444.
Two’s NEED EACH OTHER.  4 is also a building number, and it brings in the energy of Cancer/the moon which will bring powerful energies in again.
Brave souls have become frightened children, praying for help and guidance.
Our world as we once perceived it, is no longer the same world in so many ways.
So, we must prepare and give birth to that which has been within us all along, waiting for just this time.  We will create our new timeline, using this powerful transformation and that which we can build upon with the increase of the moon.
This new moon in Gemini, is also tapping into a powerful trine back to the lineup in Capricorn,

Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn, that started this whole SHIFT OF THE AGES and The Evolution of the World Soul, as I predicted back in this blog many times, but here is one from 2013: https://arcoftheancients.blogspot.com/2013/02/pluto-in-capricorn-evolution-of-world.html
We were made for just these times.  We simply must bring the light forward, find our inner light and shine that light upon the world to break through the darkness and confusion.
This is why I love using the ‘Essene’ essential oils so much, and have since the 80’s.  They are liquid light.  They are the captured light of the plants, fruits, trees, roots, etc.  So, they help you, entrain you to the light, your OWN INNER LIGHT.
As stated so exceptionally long ago, in posts trying to prepare us, ‘systemic’ collapse and pandemic were words prognosticating and forewarning this very time frame for all of us.  Though it went against the too often used ‘spiritual bypassing’ language that hijacked so many with false teachings or at best, partial truths.
I must share the truth as given to me.  It is far less popular at times than simply massaging someone’s ego, and not use the corrupted truths, which are used for just that reason, as well as profit, as in ‘false prophet’s’.
The truth for anyone truly seeking awakening, is not always easy or kind.
It does have a course.  It does have purpose.  It is necessary.
You cannot learn how courageous you are, without WALKING THROUGH FEAR until perhaps you FEAR NO MORE.
You cannot forge a strong soul that can handle the TRUE LOVE AND LIGHT OF THE CREATOR, without the PROCESS.  Without all the El-e-ments and alchemic preparation, much like distilling essential oils in a BAIN MARIE. (Reminder that the double-boiler is named after Mary Magdalene, the Patron Saint of Aromatherapy and Alchemy).  Chem, as we have stated in the past, is also Khem:
Khem was the native name for Egypt, it means “black” (darkness) and referred to the fertile, black soil of the Nile valley. Al/El is the God of the Old Testament/from Egypt. This then becomes the basis for the word, Alchemy.  For out of the fertile soil and darkness grows the healthy life, the garden of the soul.
This is what we want to tap into now.
When we translate the word 'symbol' literally, it is 'bringing together' or 'connecting': thus a symbol can connect what lies buried in our unconscious, a power that guides us knowingly or unknowingly and it is just this power that feeds our dreams too.  We want to bridge the visible with the invisible, which is not always easy to translate into words, but symbols can do this, archetypes do this, myths do this, music does this.
The following symbols represent Mary and Jesus (Sacred Marriage of the pairs of opposites)

The picture to the left, was taken from Mary Magdalene Bride in Exile, by Margaret Starbird.
This drawing can also be found in that book:

These images are found all over Europe and the Middle East and have long mythical traditions.
Essentially, the goddess is born out of the waters, (baptism) and of course, when a woman is about to give birth, her water breaks and we say, ‘she is crowing’.
Here is another picture:

The Mixoparthenos (Greek: Μιξοπάρθενος) was a Greek mythological figure, traditionally hailing from the Black Sea region where her image is seen frequent. The name means "half-maiden".

The form of the Mixoparthenos is distinctive - above the waist, a beautiful woman, but covered with scales from waist down, ending in a double snake-tail. Some versions have the Milyxoparthenos ending in a double fish-tail. Herodotus's Histories (4.9.2), Heracles marvels at a Mixoparthenos when he meets one, and mates with her, producing three sons, the youngest of which eventually became the founder of the Scythian nation.
The Starbucks logo depicts a Mixoparthenos, of the double fish-tailed variety.
With you [God] is Sophia [Lady Wisdom], she who knows your works, she who was present when you made the world; she understands what is pleasing in your eyes and what agrees with your commandments. (Wisdom 9:9)
The Hippocampus literally translates to: Sea Horse and this brings us to the Charioteer in the Tarot.  See in the image that he must hold the pairs of opposites, the male/female, yin/yang under control to get to his destination by 'reigning/reining/raining them in'.

This can also connote, the planet Neptune also known as Poseidon, who rules the seas and is credited for the invention or creation of the horse.
Neptune is still in her rulership in PIsces at 20* and is in exact square to both Mercury and Venus at 20* of Gemini during this new moon phase.  She can muddy the waters so to speak, and may create ILLUSIONS that you think you heard, or regarding what you think you love.  Be incredibly careful, as she can box you in, making you think you need to make decisions that you may not need to make.  Be careful of drinking and drugs during this time, information that may come out might not be the truth, best to wait and see.  This can also indicate an increase in overdoses or suicides.
And here we see that Venus and Mercury are conjunct, so Mercury is whispering sweet nothings into Venus’s ear and Venus can pretend she is enamored with him now.
Venus as we know, is also retrograde, making this quite the cauldron.
This does however make for the perfect time to tend to that inner child.  Bring her or him love, forgive yourselves.
While the sun and the moon, are getting together to start this new cycle, Mars is pushing into square at 6* of PIsces too, this can soften the edges, or dredge up the muck you thought was buried long ago, adding to our buried treasures we are finding now.
Saturn went retrograde on May 11th at 1* Aquarius and is still hovering on that degree forming a nice

trine of support to Lady Luna and our solar guide the sun.  This can lend a hand to both buying and selling a home, but she is retrograde and both the sun and moon are moving forward, so this is a short window of time to tap into, or for those home projects to get finished, as well as the opening of restaurants and businesses, but again, this may be elusive and short lived, as Saturn pulls back further and further and that gap widens you may feel like you just walked out onto ‘nothing’ and see the ground was never really there in the first place.  CAUTION.
Jupiter went retrograde on May 14th at 27* Capricorn so there is a wide trine of support and expansion that he is also playing with the Sun and moon.  Again, he is retrograde, and that gap will widen.
Uranus at 8* Taurus is in a sextile to Mars in PIsces, so this puts some erratic support to taking action.
All of this leads to cautionary times, but also a breather that is most welcome.
Mercury does not retrograde until June 18th.  But it may seem as though he is, because so many other planets are retrograde now and especially with Venus and Mars in Gemini now too.
The following table shows Mercury’s motion, not retrograde until June:
Shadow: 06/02/2020 29* Cancer
Retro Grade: 06/18/2020 12:58 AM EDT 14* Cancer
Direct: 07/12/2020 04:26 AM EDT 05*Cancer
Clears Shadow: 07/27/2020 14* Cancer

Janus: According to some, he was the custodian of the universe but, to all Romans, he was the god of the beginnings and the endings, presiding over every entrance and departure, and because every door and passageway looks in two directions, Janus was seen as two-faced or Janus bifrons -- the god who looked both ways. He was the gatekeeper; his symbols were a porter’s staff or virga and a set of keys. To illustrate his importance, his name was even mentioned before Jupiter in prayers. He protected the start of all activities. He inaugurated the seasons. The first day of each month was considered sacred to him but the first month of the year -- January -- which many in the present day consider named in his honor -- was actually named for Juno, queen of the gods. Early Romans coins featured his image, showing him as two-faced, one bearded and one clean-shaven. Later, during the Renaissance, this image of two faces would represent not only the past and future but also wisdom.

VENUS began her 40-day descent from view, she turned retrograde on May 12th at 21* of Gemini, and she does not move direct again until June 25th after she has travelled back to 5* Gemini.  So we see how this magnifies the energy of Mercury/Gemini in our timeframe.
The trajectory of the planet Venus is connected to the myth of Inanna.
As she descends we can also go deeper into our own psyche, into our underworld where Pluto/Hades is the ruler and he can be fearsome as we all know.  We face our deepest, darkest shadows and memory’s from the past, perhaps things we have done that we shackle ourselves to like prisoners, may once again rear their heads and make us feel ‘unworthy’.
But this journey into the darker aspects of our soul, of our being is necessary to integrate the

archetypes and symbols that hold us back, stealing our power.  This is INITIATION.
As we have been stating all along, structures, governments and corporations may fall and new ones rise, also we will see the SHADOWS that they hid too.
All of this can happen, during this PAN demic as the shadows are excavated.
The core of the earth may quake, as our own inner daemons are rattled from the depths of our being.
We are challenged to right our own ship, and find the plum line into the fertile earth within us and in our own roots, back into our lineage and where we come from, what our ancestors went through to bring you to this very moment.
On the world stage, all around us, we see collectively what we have individually created together.  It is up to each of us, to amalgamate and transmute our own darkness, making peace with the heaven’s and hells of our beliefs.
What we have not dealt with, as so much ‘spiritual bypassing’ has falsely taught, is to shove the negative down, to put on a smile and pretend you or I are in a place that has no darkness.  And now that has erupted onto the stage we see all around us.
The ‘negative energy’ story that has been pushed, as if we don’t have any darkness.  God made day and night, so we slip into the darkness and that is when we stop limiting who we are during dreamtime rather than when we are wide awake and project who we wish or think we should be.
This is precisely why I lived in the barn without running water, so many years ago.  To strip it all bare and find out who I was and why, without trying to be someone I thought I should be.
When we are through this period, we will find our deep gifts to give to the world, with less judgment.  Without calling someone the ‘other’.
As we decide whether to wear or not wear a mask.  Let us find our own inner masks and bare the true, unfiltered light.  That light will cast shadows, that is the way light works. Let’s really take our masks off!

Now, back to the astrology.  Mercury Also rules thieves and tricksters.  He is the heyoka in Native American traditions: The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Lakota people of the Great Plains of North America.
He is papa legba in Voodoo and he rules the ‘cross-roads’ that Robert Johnson went down to and according to story, he left the so-so guitar player/singer that he used to be, and after he made his ‘deal’ at the crossroads, became the legendary guitar player/songwriter and singer we all know.
Mercury is commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods.
Aventine Hill in Rome was dedicated in 495 BCE. There Mercury was associated with Maia, who became identified as his mother through her association with the Greek Maia, one of the Pleiades, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus; likewise, because of that Greek connection, Mercury was considered the son of Jupiter. Both Mercury and Maia were honoured in the Mercuralia festival on May 15, the dedication day of Mercury’s temple on the Aventine.
Mercury associated with merchants as stated previously is sometimes represented as holding a purse, symbolic of his business functions. Mercury is often portrayed wearing winged sandals or a winged cap and carrying a caduceus (staff).  Remember Moses carried a staff, and he turned it into a ‘serpent’ (Pluto is the serpent) at Pharaohs’ Court and Pharaoh commanded his own ‘MAGICIANS’ to throw their ‘staff’s’ down and they did, they turned into snakes too, but Moses had the GREATER MAGIC and his snake/staff ate the others.
He is also associated with; Shepherds, Athletes, and Luck.
He is the Patron of: Invention, art, literature, trade, and travel.
Some myths state that he was the father of the half-goat, half-human PAN.
Do you see how closely related Mercury, the messenger god who can travel into the underworld where Pluto lives, especially during this timeframe, really is to Pluto and PAN?
Most scholars think that Hermes’ name derives from the Greek word herma, which means “a heap of

stones” or “cairn.” Cairns were a common sight in the Ancient world, serving as trail- or boundary-markers. (The crossroads) Some say that the first cairn was erected by the gods, when they cast all their stones in favor of Hermes, during his trial for slaying Argus Panoptes.
Hermes was the only Olympian capable of crossing the boundary between the living and the dead and carrying the souls of the dead in Hades. In time, he came to be known as “the conductor” or “the leader of souls.” People also called him “patron of travelers and thieves,” “shepherd of men,” “trickster,” and “Argus-slayer.”
Give birth to all these aspects, integrate your own duality during this new moon in Gemini, ruled by Mercury.
Pluto is forming a tough square to Eris right now.
Eris is now at 24*Ar16'11" as of 22 May 2020
Eris goddess of strife and discord and Pluto hanging out in exact square and retrograde too, can bring untimely events, when we add Uranus to the mix, and definitely can shake up the earth or possibly find us in saber rattling if not flat out war territory.

This can bring some ‘terrible winds’, especially in Gemini which heralds some of the most deadly tornadic activity and on May 5^th, the head and tail of the dragon, Rahu and Ketu, also known as the moons/lunar nodes have moved out of the Capricorn/Cancer axis and entered Gemini/Sagittarius axis.

This will take some of the pressure off the cardinal signs, particularly Capricorn’s and Cancer’s obviously, as they have now been almost stripped clean, like an F5 Tornado went through their lives and psyche’s.
Activating and excavating their deepest selves, or the truth laid bare that remained.  They now have a clearer path, though Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn have not quite finished with them yet either.
So the mutable signs, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Virgo’s and PIsces will now go through their own activations.  This will be doubly powerful with this new moon activation and Venus retrograde in Gemini will really be rehashing old stuff, asking what do you truly love, what words build and which ones turn into SWORDS/WORDS that cut like a knife?  It may not even be possible to stop the bleeding from such poisonous cuts.  They can also cut out the tumor, the festering decay that rots the soul, when one does not take in their deepest darkest selves and love them too, integrating and admitting that darkness, to become the fuel for power, now you have taken the reins of the Charioteer.
Hang on.

We need to keep praying and hopefully, as you light your candles this new moon, see a peaceful timeline and your role in playing that peacemaker, as you make peace with your lost selves, buried far too long and waiting for you to ‘witness’ your own pain.
Get ready, all of this is leading up to the eclipse cycles, starting with the full moon on June 5th, when Lady Luna reaches 15* of Sagittarius and stands across from her paramour, the sun who will be at 15* of Gemini.  Oh the duality of it all.